Kentucky Family Rejects $26 Million Farm Bid, Joins Suit to Block 2,000-Acre Data Center
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Updated · Yahoo Finance · Aug 11
Kentucky Family Rejects $26 Million Farm Bid, Joins Suit to Block 2,000-Acre Data Center
1 articles · Updated · Yahoo Finance · Aug 11
Summary
$26 million was not enough to sway Ida Huddleston's family, which rejected the offer for half its 1,200-acre Kentucky farm and has now joined a lawsuit to stop the nearby data center project.
The fight escalated after the developer, described as an unnamed Fortune 100 company, shifted plans and won rezoning approval in May for more than 2,000 acres nearby.
Delsia Bare, Huddleston's daughter, says the project threatens local water supplies and would require major power and gas infrastructure that could reshape the rural community.
County officials say the company will fund roads, water, sewer, fiber and electrical service and promises 400 permanent six-figure jobs, but the family says those claims are not credible.
The dispute has become a broader flashpoint in tensions between data center expansion and rural landowners resisting industrial development on farmland.